Lower Middle Market Weekly Outlook

Transactions:

• McGraw-Hills buys Area9
• Engineered Controls acquires Superior Holding
• CHS acquires fertilizer business from Terral Riverservice
• Synopsys acquires Target Compiler Technologies
• Sager Creek Acquisition Corp. buys Allens Canning for $125 million
• Cabot Credit Management has acquired Marlin Financial Group
• HgCapital partners with Relay Software

Events:

• Tuesday: Janet Yellen to give her first testimony before Congress
• Wednesday: Integrative Health & Wellness roundtable discussion in NYC
• Thursday: Venture Summit Silicon Valley 2014
• All week: Sochi Winter Olympics

Opinions:

• How to conduct startup due diligence 
• What does it take to raise a financing round at a billion dollar valuation?
• Private ‘mom & pop’ businesses get props for trustworthiness
• The 8 best industries for starting a business
• 10 ways for mid-market companies to attract private equity

This week in history…Drexel Burnham Lambert filed for bankruptcy (1990).